Ancient Chinese characters preserved in Shuishu.
The research and protection of Shui nationality water books are attracting the attention of relevant departments and experts. A few days ago, the research on the rescue, protection, development and utilization of water books was officially approved by the National Social Science Fund. In just over a year, the National Social Science Fund has approved four topics on water calligraphy and water culture, and the relevant departments have listed them in the national key historical document heritage projects for rescue and protection, and are preparing to declare the World Memory Heritage List to UNESCO.
Experts who interpret the living treasure house of Chinese civilization believe that Shuishu is a writing symbol system similar to Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen. It is an ancient book that records the ancient astronomy, geography, religion, law and other cultures of the Shui people. It can be described as an encyclopedia of aquarium. Handwritten and orally handed down, it is known as the living fossil of hieroglyphics. At present, there are more than 800 kinds of ancient water script characters found in water script, plus variant characters, * * * with 1400 kinds, which are composed of pictographs, pictographs and borrowed characters. Water people call people who can read water books ghost teachers or teachers, and now they are also called Mr. Water Books.
Guizhou is the province with the largest number of aquatic animals in China, with a population of over 360,000, accounting for 90% of the total number of aquatic animals in China. Yao Binglie, director of the Archives Bureau of Libo County, Guizhou Province, told the reporter that the aquarium has been discriminated against for a long time, and aquarium books have always been regarded as anti-books, ghost books and banned books. Only by risking their lives to protect them can they survive to this day. At present, there are more than 6,400 water books in Libo Archives, which are hard-won.
A large number of precious cultural relics have been unearthed at Erlitou site in yanshi city, Henan Province, which is one of the important sites for studying Xia culture in China. In the past two years, Libo organized dozens of Mr. Shui Shu, who are proficient in Shui Shu, to identify and interpret 24 symbols on summer pottery unearthed from Erlitou cultural site, and deciphered the meaning of more than half of the symbols. What's even more surprising is that there is a word 13 in the existing Shuishu literature, which is exactly the same as that of Xia Tao.
Yao Binglie told reporters that the similarity between ancient Shui characters and Xia Tao symbols helps to identify Xia Tao symbols as primitive characters, and shows that ancient Shui characters may be a vein of Xia culture, indicating that the ancestors of Shui people developed in parallel with Han people at least in Xia and Shang Dynasties, and Shui people existed in primitive society.
The status quo of protection is not optimistic. The great breakthrough in the study of Shuishu is gratifying, but its protection is not optimistic. Meng Xilin, vice president of Guizhou Shuijia Society and an expert on water books, told the reporter that there are currently more than 20,000 water books in Guizhou Province, more than 6,400 in Libo Archives Bureau, more than 5,000 in Sandu County, and more than 1000 scattered among the people. Due to the serious shortage of funds, collection is particularly difficult. Although Libo has invested more than1million in recent years, it is only a drop in the bucket. Moreover, in recent years, the study of Shuishu has gradually attracted the attention of experts and scholars at home and abroad. Some experts from more than a dozen countries, such as Japan and South Korea, have been buying water books from the people, and a number of precious water books are being lost.
What is even more worrying is that with the passage of time, there has been a fault in the inheritance of Mr. Shui Shu, and the number of Mr. Shui Shu is decreasing sharply. According to statistics, there are more than 1000 Mr. Shui Shu in China, but most of them are over 60 years old.
The annotation and appraisal of the existing water books is beneficial to the research and inheritance of water culture. However, at present, only 1500 of more than 6,400 water books in Libo have been deciphered and sorted out, and some of the deciphered water books cannot be revised, reviewed and published due to insufficient funds. Yao Binglie said worriedly: It is so difficult to study and protect tangible water books, what's more, a large number of ancient songs of the Shui nationality without written records are simply unable to be preserved. Yao Binglie has always had a wish in his heart, hoping to build a Shuishu museum and do his best to protect Shuishu, an excellent folk cultural heritage.